stevedores in English

noun
1
a person employed, or a contractor engaged, at a dock to load and unload cargo from ships.
The group represents importers, exporters, stevedores and ship owners throughout Australia and overseas using Geraldton port.

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1. Both were as burly as stevedores, which likely was their preferred profession.

2. The Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage worker operations.

3. Of the roughly 250 crew and Army stevedores on board at the time, only two Coastguardsmen survived

4. ‘Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with Bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf.’ ‘Agents take it upon themselves to assist port operators, stevedores, and everybody involved in the successful operation of ships coming to, sailing from, or berthed at New Zealand ports.’

5. We offer insurance products for transportation companies, stevedores, wharfingers, terminal operators and port authorities, shipyards, repairers, Bunkermen, charterers, pilots, and marine contractors worldwide

6. Investigations of these accidents indicate that the methods used to load and stow these cargoes often places stevedores in precarious and dangerous situations.

7. We offer insurance products for transportation companies, stevedores, wharfingers, terminal operators and port authorities, shipyards, repairers, Bunkermen, charterers, pilots, and marine contractors worldwide

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9. On board the ship itself, with much yelling and arm waving, the stevedores then unloaded each sling and saw its contents placed in a designated position in the hold.

10. Marine Liability - coverage for those who are employed within the marine industry, including liability insurance for: transportation companies, stevedores, wharfingers, terminal operators, port authorities, ship repair operations, Bunkermen, vessel charterers, pilots and marine contractors.

11. The means towards this lay in hard-earned financing, while men were restricted to being stevedores, policemen, coopers and other not-so-wide Artisanships with fixed wages, that often led to the many labour upheavals, women were needed to sustain …

12. ‘Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with Bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf.’ ‘Prehistoric seafarers casting off from their home islands to settle elsewhere would have been sure to take along breadfruit trees, which provide an abundance of fruit.’

13. Baldly as he had stated it, in his eyes was a rich vision of that hot, starry night at Salina Cruz, the white strip of beach, the lights of the sugar steamers in the harbor, the voices of the drunken sailors in the distance, the jostling stevedores, the flaming passion in the Mexican's face, the glint of the beast-eyes in the starlight, the